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Gary snyder
1930
"If Ginsberg is the Beat movement's Walt Whitman, Gary Snyder is the Henry David Thoreau".-Bruce Cook
"I want to create wilderness out of empire."-Gary Snyder
"We . . . must try to live without causing unnecessary harm, not just to fellow humans but to all beings. We must try not to be stingy, or to exploit others. There will be enough pain in the world as it is."-Gary Snyder
"Creatures who have traveled with us through the ages are now apparently doomed, as their habitat - and the old, old habitat of humans - falls before the slow-motion explosion of expanding world economies."-Gary Snyder
"Why should the peculiarities of human consciousness be the narrow standard by which other creatures are judged?"-Gary Snyder
"Forests in the tropics are cut to make pasture to raise beef for the American market. Our distance from the source of our food enables us to be superficially more comfortable, and distinctly more ignorant."-Gary Snyder
"We are fouling our air and water and living in noise and filth that no "animal" would tolerate, while advertising and politicians try to tell us we've never had it so good."-Gary Snyder
"Sometime in the last twenty years the best brains of the Occident discovered to their amazement that we live in an Environment." -Gary Snyder
Gary Snyder Multimedia Directory
Gary Snyder on Ecology and Poetry - part 1
Gary Snyder on Ecology and Poetry - part 2
Gary Snyder on Ecology and Poetry - part 3
Gary Snyder on Ecology and Poetry - part 4
NCTV11 Interviews - Gary Snyder
"Smokey the Bear Sutra", written by Gary Snyder in 1969, pt1
"Smokey the Bear Sutra", written by Gary Snyder in 1969, pt2
Sutra Szarego Niedzwiedzia 2nd Hand Beatnix - Gary Snyder (Polish Language)
Gary Snyder - from
THE PATH TO MATSUYAMA
On Receiving the Masaoka Shiki International Haiku Grand Prize
from the Ehime Cultural Foundation, in Matsuyama City, Japan,
November 7, 2004
Gary Snyder, eco-poet
by Kerri Miller, Minnesota Public Radio, by Kerri Miller, Minnesota Public Radio
April 18, 2005